More than 31 percent of women in an attempt to lose weight induced vomiting or took laxatives, diuretics or diet pills. More than 50 percent of them were engaged in purging activities at least a few times a week, and even every day.

The idea that eating disorders affect mostly young women can easily be rebutted by this study highlighting that women in the 30s and 40s had about the same rates of disordered eating as younger women.

Not that long ago, American soldiers would train their skills to counter insurgent and partisan military organizations. These days, they are trained to show resistance to the regular army of a potential adversary